I agree. While spammers are so pathetic they will do anything for page views, I have to
admire (and detest) their ability to adapt in order to spread their nonsense.
Anything that slows them down, even in the slightest degree, is something I support and
recommend.
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:24:54 -0500
From: marc(a)uberbox.org
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Applying nofollow only to external links added in revisions
that are still unpatrolled
On 11/18/2013 04:39 AM, Happy Melon wrote:
I'm sure spam directed at, say, enwiki, would
get very subtle very quickly
if spammers thought there was a real chance of it being able to use
enwiki's pagerank weight. Don't underestimate spammers' ability to learn
and adapt.
Also +1; pagerank is a valuable thing and Wikipedia has lots of it.
Spammers would be quick to find ways to cheat, lie and manipulate their
way into tapping into it.
Right now, we are plagued with the spammers that are too desperate or
stupid to care; if we turned nofollow off, they would all descend upon
us like a plague of locusts.
-- Marc
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